Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova has tasked the health ministry and the health protection watchdog with studying Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination efficacy for HIV-positive people. This is going by the protocol of a Thursday meeting of the governing council for guardianship in the social sphere. “Russia’s health ministry and Rospotrebnadzor must explore the possibility to organise scientific studies of HIV resistance to antiretroviral drugs in Russia’s regions, and also studies of COVID-19 vaccination efficacy for HIV-positive people,” the document read. Apart from that, the health ministry, the ministry of industry and trade, and the federal antimonopoly service will have to…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Rep. Mohammed Mongunu, the Chairman of House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Petroleum, has said that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), is expected to be passed by end of April to ensure competitiveness in oil and gas industry. Mongunu made the remark while speaking with newsmen on the side-line of the visit of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum to the Port Harcourt Refining Company in Eleme, Rivers, on Wednesday. According to him, our intention is to pass the PIB with the speed of light by the end of April, 2021 so that Nigeria will get the benefits…
Chief Olisa Metu, former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says his recent experience in detention has taught him a ‘great lesson’. Metuh made the disclosure when some PDP faithful received him at the party secretariat in Awka on Wednesday. Metu was arrested in 2016 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and arraigned on seven counts of money laundering for allegedly receiving N400 million from the office of the national security adviser. In December 2020, Court of Appeal acquitted him of all charges and nullified the seven year jail handed down on him. The PDP…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to improve service delivery by ensuring that pilgrims get value for their money. He also charged the commission to be self-reliant by trying to keep away from government funding. Abubakar III, who is also the President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), gave the task when he visited the Executive Chairman of NAHCON, Alhaji Zikrullah Hassan, on Wednesday in Abuja. He said pilgrims pay lots of money, recalling that he (Sultan) introduced Hajj levy some years ago to enable the commission raise…
The Northern Governor’s Forum (NGF) has renewed its commitment to restoring peace and unity in the region. The Chairman of NGF and Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau expressed the Northern governors’ position on Wednesday in Zaria. Lalong spoke when he visited his Alma Mata, the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), where he met with the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kabir Bala, and other principal officers of the university. The governor said the forum had scheduled a meeting to hold in Kaduna on Thursday and the meeting would focus mainly on peace and unity in the region. He stressed that there should be peace…
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) on Wednesday in Abuja opened a two-day sensitisation for editors and general managers on the country’s maiden Media Engagement Strategy for Health Promotion (MES4HP) 2021-2025. The Director, Family Health Department of the ministry, Dr Salma Anas-Kolo, while declaring the event open, said “Health Promotion (HP) is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.” She said the National Health Act (NHA2014), the National Health Policy (NHP 2016) and the Second National Strategic Health Development Plan II (NSHDP II 2018-2022), are in concurrence that health promotion can reduce the country’s disease burden. Represented by Mrs…
The Portuguese government has officially nominated UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a candidate for a second term in office. UN spokesman, Mr Stephane Dujarric, disclosed this at his daily news briefing in New York on Wednesday. He said the nomination came in a letter addressed to the Presidents of the General Assembly and the Security Council. Guterres, 71, a former Prime Minister of Portugal, became the ninth Secretary-General following his election by the UN General Assembly on Oct. 13, 2016. On January 11, Dujarric confirmed that the UN chief, whose current term expires on Dec. 31, would be seeking a…
Two Policemen were on Thursday shot dead in separate incidents by yet to be identified gunmen in Anambra The shootings occurred just a day after the new Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Monday Kuryas, warned criminal elements to repent or relocate from the state. CSP Haruna Mohammed, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Command in Anambra, who confirmed the incidents, said the police patrol teams were attacked in Mkpologwu and Omogho areas of the state. Mohammed, who did not disclose the number of personnel involved, said their riffles were carted away by the assailants. He said that…
Mr Samuel Ani, another Community leader in the crisis ridden Oruku Community in Nkanu local government of Enugu, was on Wednesday, shot dead in the area by unidentified gunmen. The Police Command in the state confirmed the incident in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr Daniel Ndukwe in Enugu on Wednesday. Until his death, Ani was the Vice Chairman, Oruku Caretaker Committee. The incident occurred barely two months after the traditional ruler of the community; Igwe Emmanuel Mbah was shot and killed by alleged hoodlums while addressing his subjects on Dec. 26, 2020. NAN reports that the incident culminated…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has recorded 11 deaths and 655 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 153,842. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. The centre also reported 11 COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total fatality in the country to 1,885. Till date, the NCDC said 130,818 patients were discharged after being treated. The NCDC stated that the new infections were registered across 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory. According to the centre, Lagos topped the list with 240 infections, followed by Ogun…